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Saturday, June 26, 1948
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The Headlines
JOE LOUIS RALLIES TO STOP WALCOTT IN ELEVENTH ROUND; Trailing on Points, Champion Turns Tide With a Right to Jaw and Keeps Crown 42,667 AT THE STADIUM Jeer Early in Bout Because of Lack of Action -- Bomber Says He Is Retiring Louis, Floored in Third Round, Rallies to Knock Out Walcott in the Eleventh HARD RIGHT TO JAW TURNS TIDE IN BOUT The Champion Successfully Defending His World Heavyweight Title for the Twenty-fifth Time
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Can't Be True, Dear
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
The Emperor Waltz
The must-have
Scrabble
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Bobby Soxer
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Tech Check
Long-Playing Record (LP), Velcro & Holography Theory.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Meanwhile
- Post-WWII Expansion — The 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.
Time Elapsed
28,468 days ago
(77 years, 363 days)